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The 100-Minute Bible

Another edited Bible for your reading pleasure, designed for people on the go with not much time to spare for things spiritual: The 100-Minute Bible. Surprisingly, it is endorsed and published by the stuffy old English, as noted in this article. Here is the Sermon on the Mount in 100-speak. It's condensed, but the vocabulary isn't dumbed down. The omniscient third-person narrative even makes it sound Book-of-Mormonish. Makes me wonder what a 100-Minute Book of Mormon might sound like. Or maybe a 120-Minute Book of Mormon, reminding us it still has all those plain and precious truths that got erased from the Bible.

Mormon Books 2013-14

Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of MormonismGivens and Grow's warts-and-all biography of this energetic missionary, author, and apostle whose LDS career spanned Joseph Smith's life, the emigration to Utah, and Brigham Young's early leadership of the Church in Utah. My Review